On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:45 AM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > But there > are a minority of Windows SDK developers that require pure Native > support, not via some intermediary framework. I don't know the full > reasoning; I am not an SDK/IDE person. I always believe the reason > involves Visual Studio-based SDKs? I only know that that minority the > needed it, really needed it and contributed a lot of effort to get it > working correctly.
All the more reason to keep the Native Windows build. We already know that it's important to some people. By being inclusive to everyone, there is a larger potential market for NuttX, and with that, a larger potential developer base. Regarding Visual Studio, that is much more than an IDE; it's a whole ecosystem now, including targeting IoT. Whereas heavier IoT services run on full blown OSes, these systems are outnumbered by the large number of deeply embedded devices, sensors, etc. After our move to Apache.org stabilizes and we start making releases again, we should start thinking about how to make NuttX available to the Visual Studio IoT ecosystem. It could be a huge boost to NuttX. And it's another argument for keeping the Windows Native build intact. Nathan
